One of salsa music's most towering figures is gone — the Grammy-nominated trombonist and activist died Saturday at 75.

Willie Colón, a key creator of urban salsa and a longtime social activist, has died. He was 75. His family and manager ...

The salsa music pioneer died Saturday at 75.

His career spanned 60 years and dozens of albums and had been named among the most influential Latino artists of all time.

Just miles away in Bedstuy, Las Mariquitas is taking the stage at C’Mon Everybody, a gay bar and club known for live music along Franklin Avenue. The queer and trans ensemble, made up of 15 rotating ...

Willie Colón, a salsa music legend and pioneer of Latin American music, has died. He was 75. Colón’s family announced his death on social media Saturday. He died in New York after reportedly being ...

Gabrielle Ulubay is a Music writer at Collider. She has previously been published in The New York Times, Bustle, HuffPost Personal, and other magazines, and wrote at Marie Claire for nearly three ...

Willie Colón, a trombonist, singer, bandleader, composer and producer whose driving musical energy and mischievous bad-boy image -- he was long promoted as "El Malo" -- helped make him a ...

Willie Colón, a beloved Nuyorican musician and a legend in the salsa music scene in both New York City and around the world, ...